MATA Festival: International Contemporary Ensemble
$25
- Travis LaPlante, saxophone
Francisco del Pino — Un pez dorado (for clarinet quartet; world premiere)
Shuyu Lin — In the Station of the Metro (for alto, alto flute, & viola; NY premiere)
John Aulich — Green, or beautiful in green (for trombone & percussion; US premiere)
Travis Laplante — The Obvious Place (for solo tenor saxophone; NY premiere)
Piyawat Louilarpprasert — Double Shuttering Sprinters (for violin & cello; NY premiere)
Wajdi Abou Diab — a tune for Amer's Horn (for French horn, piano, & double bass; world premiere)
National Sawdust partners with Music at the Anthology (MATA) to present their celebrated annual spring festival. Critically acclaimed and broadly respected, The New Yorker has hailed MATA as "the most exciting showcase for outstanding young composers from around the world." The performances at National Sawdust will be curated by Darius Jones and feature their season ensemble-in-residence International Contemporary Ensemble and Travis LaPlante on saxophone.
Music at the Anthology (MATA) is an incubator for adventurous emerging artists experimenting with composition, multimedia, collaborative performance art, and every imaginable sound in between. MATA presents, supports, and commissions the music of early-career composers, regardless of their stylistic views or aesthetic inclinations. Founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa in 1996 as a way to address the lack of presentation opportunities for unaffiliated composers, MATA has since developed into the world’s most sought-after performance opportunity for emerging composers and sound artists.
Doors open at 6:30pm; performance begins at 7:30pm.
Please review National Sawdust's COVID-19 safety protocols before attending this event: https://nationalsawdust.org/covid-safety-protocols
About Music at the Anthology (MATA)
Music at the Anthology (MATA) is an incubator for adventurous emerging artists experimenting with composition, multi-media, collaborative performance art, and every imaginable sound in between. We present, support, and commission the music of early-career composers, regardless of their stylistic views or aesthetic inclinations. Founded by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa in 1996 as a way to address the lack of presentation opportunities for unaffiliated composers, MATA has since developed into the world’s most sought-after performance opportunity for young and emerging composers.
https://www.matafestival.org/About International Contemporary Ensemble
With a commitment to cultivating a more curious and engaged society through music, the International Contemporary Ensemble – as a commissioner and performer at the highest level – amplifies creators whose work propels and challenges how music is made and experienced.
https://www.iceorg.org/